Sentence examples for retail union from inspiring English sources

Wal-Mart officials say that the new organization is essentially a stalking horse for eventual unionization, and they say the retail union is intent on pushing up Wal-Mart's wages and slowing its expansion to help protect the union's members at other retailers from competition.

The retail union plans to take part in Tuesday's demonstration.

In a retail union that is turning out to have almost as many ups and downs as a Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marriage, Saks Inc. said yesterday that contrary to an announcement it made last July, the company would not be spinning off its Saks Fifth Avenue division into a separate company.

Retail union Usdaw said it would fight for a "good pension provision".

Pauline Foulkes, national officer for retail union Usdaw, said: "We understand that everyone will be disappointed about the proposed changes to the defined benefit pension scheme.

Influential retail unions, which had long pushed H&M and other companies to step up their safety investments, also turned up the heat through phone calls and Skype video chats with H&M officials, including Helena Helmersson and Anna Gedda, who head up the company's programs to improve the labor conditions and minimize the environmental impact of clothing production.

More than 70 workers at a watch manufacturer, A Classic Time Watch Company, have voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, union officials announced yesterday.

The battle was, in many ways, a replay of the mayor's race, with the union-backed Working Families Party, the retail workers' union, and the Bronx borough president, Rubén Díaz Jr., fighting the mayor, and the business community and construction workers' union standing behind Mr. Bloomberg.

In the last several weeks, the mayor has met with Stuart Appelbaum, of the retail workers' union; Bruce W. Both, of the grocery workers; and Bruce S. Raynor, of the hotel and garment workers' unions.

As the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union I am intimately aware of how big box retailers and other corporate interests use campaign contributions and super PACs to block living wage increases, family leave, and paid-sick time for hard-working Americans.

"I think that it's a victory," said Stuart Appelbaum, national president of the retail, wholesale union.